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Longfellow's class in college was one of the most remarkable that ever graduated at Bowdoin. There were, among them, Nathaniel Hawthorne (who spelled his name Hathorne in college); Franklin Pierce, afterward President of the United States; Jonathan Cilley, who was shot, while a member Congress, in a duel, by Mr. Graves of Kentucky; George B. Cheever, a distinguished clergyman and author; Stephen Longfellow the eldest brother of the poet, rapidly rising to distinction at the bar, when his earthly career was cut short by death; John S. C. Abbott, a somewhat famous writer; James W. Bradbury, an able lawyer...
...class. With the advantage of the thorough fitting gained at the Boston Latin School, he took rank as one of its best classical scholars. He excelled in translations, and entered into the spirit of the authors so sympathetically that their best passages became fixed in his memory, and were ever after available for use. He stood among the best in forensics, history, and belles letters. But while successful in these branches he entirely failed in mathematics. He had no faculty for the science and became thoroughly disheartened and disgusted with the study. The elective system had not then been introduced...
...announced that the Amherst library contains 43,000 volumes. The present management is very satisfactory, and Mr. Fletcher, the new librarian, is regarded as one of the best the college ever had. The cost of changing and enlarging the old building was $47,000, a large part of which sum was contributed by Hon. David Sears and John A. Burnham of Boston...
...number of entries for the winter sports of the Union Amateur Athletic Club, which will be held at the Institute Rink, next Wednesday evening, is larger this year than ever before.-Among the contestants are the following gentlemen from the Harvard Athletic Association; C. H. Atkinson, '85, running high jump; Wendell Baker, '86, quarter mile run; E. A. Thomson, '87, mile run, (handicap.) There will also be a tug-of-war team from the Harvard Law School...
PRINCETON BOATING.The following have been elected officers of the Princeton Boating Association: Captain, C. W. Bird; president, Grier Hersch; vice-president, F.S.Hicks; treasurer, W. F. Jackson; secretary, M. S. Bevan. The question of the advisability of supporting a crew has been a mooted one in the college ever since the defeats sustained last spring. Strong articles in opposition to boating have appeared in the college press, and a stubborn resistance was anticipated in the meeting by the boating men. The elections were made, however, without opposition, and a motion was carried to sustain a crew. The applications for positions...